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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by corv on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:20PM (#13636927)
http://matrix.org/ is a promising decentralized communications protocol.

The popular https://riot.im is built on top.

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by joecool1029 on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:29PM (#13637026)
> The popular https://riot.im is built on top.

Thanks, so it's basically a opensource and federated slack?

How does this solve the email encryption use case? (longer form text not requiring presence)

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by NoGravitas on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:38PM (#13637116)
As is, it doesn't. It should be possible to build an app with the email nature on top of the Matrix protocols though, and I'm led to understand there are people working on it.
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